If you imbued hacker technology with the artistic impulses of a crayon-wielding toddler, you’d get something like Harvey Moon’s “Drawing Machine”: a robotic contraption that transforms scanned ...

The Japanese practice of drawing patterns in sand, known as “karesansui” or “dry landscape” gardening, is often associated with Zen Buddhism. These gardens are designed to embody a sense of ...

Not all of us have CNC machines, laser cutters and 3D printers, and I’ll bet most of us didn’t start out that well equipped. The low-cost drawing machine that [jegatheesan] made for his daughter ...

Every picture tells a story, but in this case, every story tells a picture — dozens of pictures, in fact, which, when viewed together, tell a story of innovation and technology. Meet the Perpetual ...

Great art has the capacity to transport viewers across the emotional spectrum. It can be revitalizing, devastating, beautiful, and terrifying. It can also be made by a hamster. The Hamster Powered ...

Researchers have developed an automatic drawing machine that uses pens and pencils to draw metamaterials -- artificially engineered composite materials that derive their properties from patterned ...

Studying the psychology of children and the way it changes as they develop is a difficult business. One idea is that drawing plays a crucial role in children’s cognitive development, so drawings ought ...